Conan CLion plugin

Conan, the C and C++ package manager, now directly in your IDE. List available libraries, install and use them without leaving CLion

Using the Plugin

Note

For a detailed explanation of how to use the plugin check: https://blog.conan.io/introducing-new-conan-clion-plugin/

Go to the “Conan” tool tab at the bottom of the IDE. You will see that the only enabled action in the toolbar of the plugin is the one with the ⚙️ (wheel) symbol, click on it.

The first thing you should do there is configuring the Conan client executable that’s going to be used. You can point to one specifically installed in an arbitrary location on your system or you can select “Use Conan installed in the system” to use the one installed at the system level.

You will find there some options marked as default. Normally, if you are using the Conan plugin, you wouldn’t want to unmark them. So leave them and let’s create our project and add the libraries to it. So, click on the OK button and the plugin should be ready to use.

After doing the initial configuration, you will notice that the list of libraries is now enabled and that the 🔄 (update) and 👁️ (inspect) symbols…